WEBVTT - Music Heals - April 4th, Hour 3 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.480 All right, News, Round of Information, overload hour toll free. 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:04.120 Here's our number. It's eight hundred and nine to four 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:05.880 one sean if you want to be a part of 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:12.440 the program. All right. China today responded to reciprocal tariffs 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.160 that Donald Trump has put on them. And then, by 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:17.279 the way, and James, you can grab me the list. 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.680 The list of products that China imposes tarifs on is 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:28.800 absolutely positively massive. It's almost every single product that we sell. Now, 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:33.120 China wants to access to American markets and our population. 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.360 And you know what they also use, you know, pretty 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.120 much slave labor. They got their sweatshops up and running 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.879 where they pay people next to nothing in China, and 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.839 they treat them horribly. They treat their workers horribly. And 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.879 if that's the case, if they want to if they 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:52.360 want to have a battle of the tariffs and they 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.200 want to play chicken with Donald Trump, it's not going 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.959 to work out. Well. Does that mean that maybe some 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.240 prices on some items might temporarily go up? Yeah, till 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.920 Americans figure out that Donald Trump is going to give 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:08.120 them major incentives to build manufacturing centers here in this country, 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:09.760 maybe not tax them at all or make them one 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.240 hundred percent deductible the cost of building it, which will 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:17.319 be great for manufacturing and great for American workers. Who 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.080 is they're going to have high paying career jobs in 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.720 all of these industries, from Apple to semiconductors and the 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:28.360 Taiwanese chip company and ai and auto manufacturing, et cetera. 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.360 You know, they in China, Just to give you an extent, 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.920 China raise their tariffs in twenty nineteen sixty billion dollars 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:41.600 on US products, sixty billion that includes raising products are 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:46.160 more than five thousand items as high as twenty five percent. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.520 Now they're going to raise it another thirty four percent, 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.280 which means that we'll be able to sell nothing in China. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.040 But guess what, They're not going to be able to 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:59.600 sell anything here either. I mean everything. It impacts every 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:07.840 single industry building materials, food that includes spirits and leather 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:17.400 goods and clothing, and automobiles and fertilizer, and you name it, telecommunications, equipment, television, 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:22.160 broadcast cameras, sailboats, motor boats, yachts, you name it. They're 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.920 putting massive tariffs on it. And chicken and pork and 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.400 soy and beef. They're hurting our ranchers. They're hurting our 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:32.800 farm farmers, They're hurting our auto manufacturers, they're hurting everybody. 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:37.560 I don't give a flying rip about the communist Chinese. Now, 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.200 the interesting thing is, and I know Wall Street's skittish, 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.959 I'm telling you what's going to happen is we already 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.720 have nearly five trillion dollars committed because of the threat, 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.880 just prior to the announcement earlier this week, just because 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.240 of the threat of tariffs, you have five trillion dollars 0:02:55.280 --> 0:03:02.320 committed between foreign countries and American industry, including Apple's five 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.160 hundred billion dollars, including the Taiwanese chip company, including Nissan 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.280 and Honda, that we're going to build plants in Mexico, 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.360 that are now going to build them right here in 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:14.440 the USA and create high paying career jobs for Americans. Democrats, 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.280 all of them, We've been playing all week. Janet Yelling 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:23.079 and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and Barack Husain Obama 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.639 all have been saying the same thing. And you know what, 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.160 I'm just tired of hearing it. Let's go back to 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.600 what Donald Trump said about tariffs that China has levied 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.440 on us. He said this on Wednesday. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:40.480 China first row China sixty seven percent. That's tariffs charged 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:45.440 to the USA, including currency manipulation and trade barriers, So 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.400 sixty seven percent. I think you can for the most 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.480 part see it. So sixty seven percent. So we're going 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.520 to be charging a discounted reciprocal tariff of thirty four percent. 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.480 I think. In other words, they charge us, we charge him, 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.800 we charge m les. So how can any be upset? 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.400 They will be because we never charged anybody anything, but 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:09.080 now we're going to charge It was only seven years 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.600 ago when I came in. We started with China charged 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.560 that we took in hundreds of billions of dollars from 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:22.360 China in tariffs, and they understood. Honestly, Presidency understood. He said, look, 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.240 I understand, and the other countries and they all understand. 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:26.600 We're gonna have to go. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.560 Through a little tough love maybe, but they all understand 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.480 they're ripping us off, and they understood it. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.719 You have two choices. America continues to get ripped off 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:40.960 and being taken advantage of, and we go the institutional way. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:46.440 It's sort of like, you know, if you're a conservative 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:53.440 maga republican versus an institutionalized rhino. You don't want to 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.320 rock the boat on anything. And that's been the that 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.920 has been the posture of the US for fifty years, 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.159 but it has always been the posture of the Democratic Party. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:06.000 I mentioned Janet Yale, and I mentioned Obama. I mentioned Schumer. 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.600 Just there as a reminder, here's Pelosi advocating for teriffs. 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.039 In terms of tariffs, I think it's interesting to note 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.560 that the average US MFN tariff on Chinese goods coming 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.599 into the United States is two percent, whereas the average 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:25.720 Chinese to MFF tariff on US goods going into China 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:30.040 is thirty five percent. Is that reciprocal? You have a 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.360 serious threat not only to our relationship but to the 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.640 industrialized world. And if there's one message that I want 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:40.200 our colleagues to understand today and our constituents, is that 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.719 on this day, your member of Congress could have drawn 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.040 the line to say to the President of the United 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.760 States do something about this US China trade relationship. That 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.560 is a job loser for the United States. 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:57.720 Oh, very different conversation anyway. Gordon Chang is with us, 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.279 author of the book The Coming Collapse of China and 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:04.279 the Great US China Tech War. Welcome to the program. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.839 I am fed up as an American that our country 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.320 is being taken advantage of by friends and foe alike. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.240 I am fed up being a sucker nation. I am 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:17.560 fed up with old school thinking. And I applaud the President. 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.880 And it has reaped a lot of dividends in terms 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.640 of commitments for investments and trillions and trillions of dollars. 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.520 And I guarantee you most of these countries are going 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.080 to come crawling back to the table because they want 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.080 access to our markets. If people could just hold the 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.440 line and stay patient, you know, for more than forty 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:38.800 eight hours, for crying out. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.839 Loud, You're absolutely right, Sean. The important point here is 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.880 that if you drive through the Sound southern communities, if 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:50.240 you drive through Detroit, you will see American communities that 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.320 have been devastated by the loss of factories to China 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.960 and other countries. And the loss of those factories was 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.640 because of policies not only in the nineteen nineties when 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.400 you played that Nancy Pelosi clip, but also after China 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.479 joined the World Trade Organization in late two thousand and one. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:12.600 And you're absolutely right. We have in China slave labor 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.840 wigers Kazakhs and other Turkic minorities, in addition to hand 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:22.840 Chinese working in horrific Christian conditions. We can't ask American 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.080 workers to compete against slave labor. As matter of fact, 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.480 I remember eighteen sixty we fought a war over labor practices. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:35.320 We cannot allow slaves to compete with Americans. We have 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.520 to reindustrialize our country. 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:38.600 So I am so. 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:42.840 Happy that you have talked about this in such meaningful terms. 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.760 Well it's meaningful. I mean, there really are two options. 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.120 Either we continue to allow countries to take advantage of us, 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.280 abuse our friendship. In the case of allies, you know, 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.760 I expect it from foes like China. I expect them 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.880 from Russia. I expect them from Iran and maybe North Korea. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.680 I don't expect it from Japan, don't I don't expect 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.640 it from Canada, I don't expect it from from European countries. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:12.880 Almost all the countries that I mentioned benefit from American security, 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:17.560 an American investment in national defense, and are counting on 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.080 us if that moment ever comes comes in there in 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.360 our lifetime that they need help. And yet they're abusing 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:28.720 American taxpayers. So we either let them continue to basically 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.440 rop from us, or we take a stand and say 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.880 your choice, free affair trade or reciprocal tariffs. I don't 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.600 think you can get any more fair than that. That's 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.520 not a complicated concept. You don't need to graduate from 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.439 Harvard or MIT to figure that out. 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.719 Yeah, but if you graduate from Harvard or m I 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:50.959 T or you go to Georgetown, basically you're becoming stupid 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.240 because you're learning all sorts of things that make no 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.280 sense in the real world. They only make sense if 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.280 you go to Harvard, Yale, or Georgetown. So absolutely, we 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:05.640 need to have reciprocal tariffs. We need to reindustrialize, and 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.320 let's not be intimidated by Wall Street or the Chinese 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.439 for that matter. You started by talking about the thirty 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.920 four percent terriffs that the Chinese imposed on us. Look, 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.160 they've got a smaller economy. Their economy is less than 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.760 two thirds the size of ours, and they're the trade 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:26.360 surplus country. Last year, China ran a merchandised trade surplus 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.320 against the United States of two hundred and ninety five 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:33.400 point four billion dollars. Trade surplus countries and trade wars 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:37.920 have no ammunition. President Trump will win this unless he's 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.400 intimidated by Wall Street, and I'm sure he will not be. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.080 He talked about this when he gave a speech on Wednesday. 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.240 He said, there will be short term pain. We know 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:52.000 that Wall Street is notoriously skittish. We've witnessed it the 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:52.959 last two days. 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:54.319 Is it. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.600 Is it a little bit of short term pain? 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:57.120 Yes? 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:57.439 It is. 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.040 Do I think it's going to reverse itself, probably a 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.720 lot sooner than people are predicting. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:02.040 I do. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.480 Do I believe all these people, these naysayers, are going 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.720 to have egg on their face when the money starts 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.440 pouring in. Yes, I do do. I have a strong 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.560 faith that these countries desperately want access to American markets, 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.920 and the outcry from manufacturers abroad is going to be loud, 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.440 and those countries are going to be pressured into making 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.200 a free and fair trade deal with the US. That's 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.319 all going to happen. That's going to percolate up to 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.959 the surface, and America just has to for this interim 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.199 period of time. I don't think it's going to be 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.880 longer than a week or two. Just suck it up. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:41.199 Understand how markets work. This is institutional change, and it's 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.599 a little bit of a shock to the system. But 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.960 once people grow accustomed to the new way of doing things, 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:49.760 then they're going to see the benefits of. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.880 It, absolutely, And I don't think the pain will be 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.280 as great as people say. If we go back to 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.800 President Trump's first round of tariffs on China in twenty eighteen, 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.920 China absorbed somewhere between seventy five to eighty one percent 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.719 of the cost of those tariffs. Although you had a 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.040 lot of smart people in New York and Washington just 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.560 wail about how there would be inflation with those twenty 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:17.080 eighteen tariffs, it didn't happen, Sean. And this time China 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:21.440 has even more incentive to absorb the President Trump's tariffs, 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.199 and they already are doing so from anecdotal information that 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.360 we are hearing from trade specialists. So I think, yes, 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.360 there will be pain, but this is necessary because we've 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.920 had decades of misguided trade policy. But the pain is 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.080 not going to be as bad as everyone thinks, because 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:44.360 everyone needs access to the world's best market and that's ours. 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.880 That's so well said. All right, quick break more with 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.679 Gordon Chang on the other side. Toll free number is 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.480 eight hundred and ninety four one. Sean if you want 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.240 to be a part of the program, continue now with 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.920 Gordon Shang, who is with us talking about China and 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.400 they want a tariff fight with the US. Fine, let's 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.080 say let's have the terrify. They need access to our 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.240 markets big time. You know, I've always said on this 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.959 program that the stock market is not my barometer in 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.480 terms of the health of the economy. Austin Goulsby even 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:16.920 said the economy is really strong right now. And he's 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:23.079 not exactly a supply side conservative in terms of his thinking. 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.120 He was used to be on the Council of Economic 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.920 Advisors for Barack Obama. For crying out loud, I've had 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.520 many a fight with him over economic issues over the years. 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.520 I end up being right most of the time. But 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.760 he's actually a good guy with a great personality, and 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.839 he is not wrong this time when he says the 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.280 economies and the fundamentals of the economies are strong. 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:43.480 Now. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.400 We do have economic news that came out today. Most 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.800 of it is very good and in case people are 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:54.520 watching or listening to this program, you know, first of all, 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:58.280 nobody was howling it with this feigned outrage when Joe 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.559 Biden Barack Obama imposed tariffs. Joe Biden imposed them on 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.960 Mexico and China and Russia and other countries. Obama did 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.640 the same. Nobody's paying attention to the fact that oil 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.920 prices now have dropped to the lowest level since twenty 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.719 twenty one. Nobody's paying attention or seems to care that. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.120 While the Democrats and the legacy media mob is screaming 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:24.640 about Wall Street that in their most recent survey, the 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.079 trade group pointed out that consumer spending is not unraveling. 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:32.760 The National Retail Federation reported two days ago that it 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:36.040 expects twenty twenty five retail sales the top five point 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.599 four trillion dollars growing anywhere between two point seven and 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.800 three point seven percent, well above what they sold in 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.760 twenty twenty four. Online sales can rise as much as 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.599 nine percent. The US economy added more jobs at a 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.280 faster pace in March. I would call that the Trump 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.719 effect and his policies even are not even in place yet. 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.559 So there's a lot of good economic news today, But 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:02.920 of course that doesn't you know, if it bleeds, it leads. 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.559 If it's negative, they want to and it's Trump involved, 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:06.520 they want to be negative. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.360 One of the great things about the March job report 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.280 is that there was an increase in private sector jobs. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.240 If you go back in the Biden administration, there were 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:20.000 increases in employment months a month, but those were government jobs. 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.400 And the last thing that we need is a larger government, 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:27.160 because the federal government is far too big for the 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:31.040 United States at this moment. President Trump is changing that. 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:35.000 It's going to be painful, but having private sector jobs 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.040 is the only path to endure in prosperity. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.120 Yeah, no doubt about it anyway, Gordon saying, do you 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.000 really think that China's going to collapse? 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.800 I think that China right now is panicking because they're 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.480 only hope to rescue a grim situation. They're not growing, 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.640 They're probably at zero or below. Their only hope is 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:57.120 to export more to the United States, and that ain't happening. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.960 So yes, I think that they're in real dire I've 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.560 been wrong about timing, you know, But nonetheless we can 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.600 see it coming because the Chinese system is not sustainable. 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:12.480 It is only survived because we allow, through indulgent policies 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.560 to buy Chinese goods made under horrible conditions. You know, 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.320 I'm very glad you played that Nancy Pelosi clip. Because 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.960 she was right, then Bill Clinton was wrong. We should 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.440 not have allowed China into the global trading system. 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.160 Appreciate you. Gordon Chang eight hundred and ninety four one 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.960 Shawn talking about being made in America. 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Like Lee Greenwood was singing 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.440 God Bless the USA, he was singing Fighter at Trump 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:31.240 events throughout the campaign. And you know, I've said this 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:35.040 many times that I'm I'm in the communication business. I 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:38.560 do radio and I do television, but I don't think 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.760 it's the most powerful form of communication. I would argue 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:46.040 movies and music. You know, I don't make well, maybe Linda, 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.720 I might make you cry occasionally. I might make liberals 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:53.000 cry occasionally, but I don't make you cry. I don't 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.200 make I don't. I don't make I don't. I don't 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:57.680 make Linda cry. For the records, just for the records. 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.359 I'm like everything He's gonna be writing in like what's 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.480 going on Kennedy makes Linda Croye. If you're not can 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.240 hear that tomorrow? Like all right, it's gonna blow up 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:09.280 over the week out instead of people going to Hannity 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.639 dot com clicking on the Tesla contest and putting in 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:13.639 the word of the day Sean. And you can register 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:17.959 today tomorrow, on Sunday, uh and every day through April 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:20.880 the eleventh. And I'll pick one lucky what we'll pick 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:23.560 one lucky winner. I won't pick it, and well I 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:26.879 will buy them at Tesla just to show solidarity with 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.720 a lawn. Anyway, our friend John con that song went 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.240 number one. He has a new song out about faith, 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:38.400 which has carried him through the anti Semitism, the Palisades fires, 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.640 the loss of his home. So, by the way, they've 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:46.000 allowed four building permits in the area around the Pacific 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:47.760 Palisades for people to rebuild. 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:48.159 That's it. 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:50.320 And I'm told by friends of mine out there that 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.720 big companies like Blackrock are coming in and buying massive, 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:58.280 you know, amounts of plots of land because people don't 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.720 want to rebuild and then lose in a fortune. And 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:04.240 they're all having problems with their insurance companies. It's terrible. Anyway, 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:07.800 he also experienced the loss of his home to the fires. 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.560 His mom passed away. And you know, out of pain 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.040 sometimes comes great artistry, and that's what I would say 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.440 comes out of this new song. It's called Fingerprints. I 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.240 get goosebumps just here in that I got my fingerprints 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:25.920 on you. Anyway, John con I have no idea why 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:28.240 the bright Bart editor. You should be on the road 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:32.800 bringing your music and inspiring people. It's really interesting to 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:35.479 me because Fighter I kind of look at as more 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:39.639 of a country song, and this song obviously is a 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:44.040 song of faith and called Fingerprints, and it reminds me 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.280 a lot. And these are my two favorite music genres, 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:49.080 which is why I'm bringing those up country and I 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:51.960 love Christian contemporary music. By the way, I urge everybody 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:54.960 if you want to see the defining concert watch twenty 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:59.399 eighteen Michael W. Smith Bridgestone Arena. You could pull it 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:02.280 up on YouTube. But first of all, it's great to 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.439 have you back, number one. Number two. I'm so sorry 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:08.800 you lost your home. I'm so sorry about the passing 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.800 of your mom. When I read your post quote, I've 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:15.440 experienced tremendous loss recently, but in these past few years 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:20.040 I found something even greater, something I never anticipated. Faith. 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:23.159 It's never too late, and I hope this song reaches 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:27.040 even just a few who might believe otherwise. Wow, I'm 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:29.560 so sorry. You know, we all go through pain in life. 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:33.280 We all take our hits, and life can be really painful. 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:37.000 And out of your pain, clearly your art comes through. 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:39.840 Well. Thanks for having me, Sean. You know what's interesting 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:42.639 about these two songs, Sean, is that they kind of 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:47.840 predated these really rough events that have happened. For example, 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:51.600 Fighter that I wrote for President Trump, that was written 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:55.200 before the assassination attempt, when everybody thoughts I had written 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.520 it in response, and then, by. 0:22:57.400 --> 0:22:59.760 The way, count me among them. I thought that that's 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:01.400 a yeah. 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:04.200 And when so when he stood up and yelled fight, Fight, Fight, 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:06.480 you know, I got goosebumps all down my body because 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:08.400